Month: February 2013

As tensions between the state government and the Australian Education Union escalate, schools face increasing uncertainty about the year ahead. ICTORIA’S reshaped but shrunken Education Department isn’t exactly headless, but its chieftains have yet to appoint the underlings who will…

A significant minority of schools in England are still not spending extra funding for poor pupils effectively, warns an education inspectors’ report. Some schools struggle to show how they use pupil premium payments, aimed at raising the achievements of poor…

The UK is below average in an international comparison of social mobility within school systems. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produces rankings of school performance – but it has now published an analysis of fair opportunities for…

An “outdated” measure of educational achievement, focused on a narrow group of academic subjects, is being pushed by the government, Labour has claimed. The party said Education Secretary Michael Gove thought children should only follow academic qualifications. Shadow education secretary…

Pupils should be taught a robust “core knowledge” of facts and information, the education secretary has said, setting out the principles of his curriculum changes. In a speech on Tuesday, Michael Gove promised to rid the curriculum of “vapid happy…